Further News - February 2003

World Indoors : Flu forces Bucher withdrawal posted 27.02
World 800 metres champion Andre Bucher will not compete in next month's world indoor championships in Birmingham. .
The Swiss Athletics Federation announced on Thursday that Bucher's decision was due to an ongoing illness.

Paula Radcliffe sets new World 10k record posted 24.02
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP)— British distance runner Paula Radcliffe set a world record for 10 kilometers on Sunday, finishing in 30: 21 seconds to win the World's Best 10K road race. [ more ]

Indoor Track : Haile back to best in Birmingham posted 22 Feb [ more ]
Haile Gebrselassie smashes the world indoor two mile record - plus all the rest of the action from the Norwich Union Indoor Grand Prix. For this race report click . [ here ]

Track Indoors : Borzakovskiy wins 800 thriller posted 19 Feb
Stockholm, Sweden - Yuri Borzakovsky gave early indications that his 400m training of 2002 will benefit him in the season ahead. In a thrilling 800m race he edged out Wilson Kipketer to win in 1:44.34. This augers well for the year ahead [ more ]

2003 Tokyo International Marathon Preview 07 Feb
On Sunday February 9, 2003 Tokyo International Marathon, which doubles as the second qualifying race for the World Championships men's marathon team, will take place on the course that is essentially the same as the 1991 World Championships marathon course..

Gert Thys of South Africa amongst the favourites [ more ]

Track Indoor : Ethiopia's Adere just misses world record posted 06 Feb
DORTMUND, Germany - Ethiopia's Berhane Adere came within 87 hundredths of a second from breaking the women's world indoor 5,000 meters record on Wednesday.
With a time of 14:48.22 seconds, Adere just missed out on bettering the record of 14:47.35 set on the same track four years ago by Gabriele Szabo of Romania.

Gebrselassie targets third gold 04 Feb
Haile Gebrselassie has set his sights on a third Olympic 10,000m title - and his race for sporting immortality will begin in Birmingham this month...
The Ethiopian, arguably the greatest distance runner of all time, took his second Olympic gold in Sydney but lost his world 10,000m crown in 2001, before suffering another defeat on his marathon debut in London last April. [ more ]

Kenyan runners top the winners' list in the Bali 10-K run posted 02 Feb
KUTA, Indonesia - Kenyan runners took the three top men's places in a 10-kilometer (6.2-mile) run held here Sunday to promote the recovery of the bomb-hit Indonesian resort island of Bali. Australia's Benita Johnson 1st (31:39) won the Women's section

Boston Indoor : Regina Jacobs sets new World Record posted 02 Feb
Boston, USA - American Regina Jacobs set a women’s World indoor 1500m record of 3:59.98 at the adidas Boston Indoor Games last night (1 February), turning the US Indoor season’s traditional opening fixture into a truly great spectacle. [ more ]